Max Presneill

LOS ANGELES—Max Presneill is director of the Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, which represents such artists as Daniel Dove, Boo Ritson, David Ryan, Daisuke Ueno, Simon Willems and Cindy Wright. He tells about his favorite work, which is “intellectually engaging and formally elegant. … Just what I want from the best of art!”

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The Favorite Work in My Collection:

One of my favorite recent acquisitions is Kim Rugg’s Attack On America. It is a completely mad, obsessive work, and I love it.

[The piece] is the Financial Times from Sept. 12th, 2001, and Rugg has cut up and reconstructed every letter in alphabetical order. Even the bar code is in numerical order. All the photographs are also cut into tiny squares and graded tonally from the top of the page, getting darker as they descend.

Her practice of engaging with the components and strategies of information dispersal are intellectually engaging, formally elegant and kick me in the nuts. Just what I want from the best of art!

Attack on America was shown here at Mark Moore Gallery for the summer show, “Ultrasonic International,” and it really grabbed me and everyone else who saw it. It cost $1,800, framed. [It] will be hung in my apartment once I have figured out the best position and moved everything else in my collection around